David Rodin is one of the leading world experts on war ethics and conflicts. He works at the University of Oxford and for Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs (New York). Among his works is the awarded book War and Self-defense. Guest lectures
Igor Primoratz writes on moral, political and legal philosophy. In his current research he focuses in particular on the ethics of war, where he works within the just war tradition, and on terrorism, which he considers “almost absolutely” wrong. Another central research interest at present is patriotism: How does it differ from nationalism? What are its…
Fabienne Peter is a professor for political philosophy at the University of Warwick. She earned her PhD University of St. Gallen and her habilitation in Economics and Philosophy of Economics, University of Basel, 2004. She specializes in moral and political philosophy, social epistemology, and the philosophy of economics. Her current research interests centre on normativity, especially…
Ingmar Persson is a professor of practical philosophy at Oxford University. The main topics of his research related to the problem of how much concepts that seem to be slowly losing their meaning, such as morality, identity, free will, common sense, mean to us today. His most significant works are The Retreat of Reason – A Dilemma…
Nicholas Onuf taught international relations at Georgetown American University, Washington, DC, for 28 years. He is currently a professor emeritus at Department of Politics and International Relations, Florida International University, Miami, where he taught for ten years. Additionally he is an associate professor in Rio de Janeiro (Instituto de Relações Internationais, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio…
Frederic Neff is the program manager at the School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (l’École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales – EHESS). He manages the program Logic and Ontology of Social Objects. His last published book was Traité d’Ontologie pour les non philosophes (et ceux qui ne le sont pas), Gallimard, Paris, 2009. He published Les…
Jan Narveson was born in Minnesota (USA), studied at the University of Chicago (he graduated in political science in 1955, then philosophy in 1956), and received his doctorate from Harvard (1961) (1959/1960 he spent at Oxford as a scholarship holder). He taught at the University of New Hampshire, 1961-1963, and then at the University of Waterloo…
Margaret Moore is the author of A Political Theory of Territory (Oxford University Press 2015) as well as two other books with Oxford University Press, three edited volumes, and more than 50 articles and refereed chapters. She received her doctorate in 1990 from the London School of Economics & Political Science and is a Professor in the Political…
Branko Milanović (1953), is one of the leading contemporary world economists. He graduated from the Economic Faculty at the University of Belgrade in 1977. and wrote his PhD about economic inequalities in Yugoslavia at the same faculty in 1987. He has been working at the research department of the World Bank in Washington since 1990. At…
Wolfgang Merkel (WZB, Berlin Social Science Center) is the director of the research program “Democracy and Democratization” of the Research Center for Social Sciences in Berlin (WZB), professor of political science at Humboldt University and a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. He is also a non-party member of the Commission for Core…